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Subject: Re: Did you hear?

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Ron

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Date Posted: Thu 19 May, 2005 06:07:22
In reply to: Confounded 's message, "Did you hear?" on Wed 18 May, 2005 15:55:03

I am not surprised!

If a donor does not LEGALLY remove his parental rights (and obligations) to the child, he can VERY EASILY and VERY QUICKLY get sued by the mother for child-support.

After all, the donor is the legal father of the child.

Ron

>Did you hear?.........
>
>There I was, just dozing off last night listening to
>Radio 5�s �thru the Night� programme when an item
>caught my attention, making me wake up. The feature
>came from a radio station in the U.S. with the
>announcer reading a story about how an artificial
>insemination donor had been successfully taken to
>court by a woman who had become pregnant by him, and
>now she was suing for maintenance. Apparently the
>couple had never met and yet she had won her case and
>the luckless donor was having to support the child!
>
>This made me think that the newly amended law in the
>U.K. which no longer protects the anonymity of the
>donor, is fraught with dangers. No wonder the number
>of men willing to donate semen to women through
>agencies or otherwise, is declining. Have you any
>comments?

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Did you hear?	moderator	Thu 19 May, 2005 09:30:39
Re: Did you hear? -- Ron, Fri 20 May, 2005 05:50:30 Re: Did you hear? -- moderator, Fri 20 May, 2005 10:46:51 Re: Did you hear? -- Confounded, Sun 22 May, 2005 05:15:05 Re: Did you hear? -- moderator, Sun 22 May, 2005 14:58:44 Re: Did you hear? -- Ron, Mon 23 May, 2005 06:54:53 Re: Did you hear? -- moderator, Mon 23 May, 2005 09:18:24 Re: Did you hear? -- Ron, Tue 24 May, 2005 06:01:17 Re: Did you hear? -- moderator, Tue 24 May, 2005 07:46:43 Re: Did you hear? -- CONFOUNDED, Wed 25 May, 2005 05:21:09 Re: Did you hear? -- Ron, Wed 25 May, 2005 06:03:44 coughing up after AI -- FQ, Sun 29 May, 2005 10:46:16